O'Hagan, Harriet (née Osborne)
O'Hagan, Harriet (née Osborne) (1830–1921), portrait painter, was born in Dublin and studied drawing with George Sharp RHA (1802–77). As Harriet Osborne, aged nineteen, she exhibited, for the first time with the RHA, a lithograph of Mrs Hone…...
O'Neill, Henrietta
O'Neill, Henrietta (1757/8–1793), poet, hostess, and patron of the arts, was the only child of Charles Boyle (1728–59), Viscount Dungarvan (son of John Boyle (qv), 5th earl of Cork and Orrery), and his wife, Susannah (1732–83), daughter of…...
O'Neill, (Katharine) Jean
O'Neill, (Katharine) Jean (1915–2008), Lady O'Neill of the Maine , plantswoman and horticulturalist, was born 16 January 1915 at 41 Brook Street, Mayfair, London, one of five children of William Ingham Whitaker, landowner and horticulturalist of Pylewell Park, near Lymington, Hampshire…...
O'Neill, Sarah Ann (née Hanna)
O'Neill, Sarah Ann (née Hanna) (1919–2012), traditional singer, was born on 19 August 1919 in Derrytresk, Co. Tyrone, the eldest of nine children (five sons and four daughters) of Joe Hanna, a small farmer, and his wife Elizabeth (née Hughes). Her mother also had three sons from her…...
Orpen, Beatrice Esther (‘Bea’)
Orpen, Beatrice Esther (‘Bea’) (1913–80), painter and art teacher, was born 7 March 1913 at Lisheens, Carrickmines, Co. Dublin, one of twin daughters, the youngest children among five daughters and one son of Charles St George Orpen (1864–1939), a solicitor and president of the…...
Osborne, Catherine Isabella
Osborne, Catherine Isabella (1818–80), artist and patron, was born 30 June 1818, at her father’s residence of Newtown Anner, near Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, the second child and only daughter of Sir Thomas Osborne (1757–1821), a prominent landowner in south Tipperary and Waterford, and…...
Patterson, Annie Wilson
Patterson, Annie Wilson (1868–1934), musician, author, and music teacher, was born 27 October 1868 in Lurgan, Co. Armagh, daughter of Thomas Rankin Patterson, bakery owner, and Martha Macaulay Patterson (née Wilson), a distant relative of Lord Macaulay. She attended Alexandra College,…...
Patterson, Ottilie Anna
Patterson, Ottilie Anna (1932–2011), blues and jazz singer, was born on 31 January 1932 at 26 Carnesure Terrace, Comber, Co. Down, the youngest of four children (two boys and two girls) of Joseph Patterson (d. 1975), a driver and ex-British army soldier, and his wife Juliet (née ēgers…...
Pennefather, Catherine
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Perry, Lilla Minnie
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Pilkington, Ellice
Pilkington, Ellice (1869–1936), women's activist and artist, was born 1 September 1869 as Louisa Ellice Esmonde , second daughter of Sir John Esmonde, MP and lieutenant-colonel of Waterford artillery militia, of Ballynastragh, Gorey, Co. Wexford, and Louisa Esmonde (née Grattan),…...
Plunket, Katharine
Plunket, Katharine (1820–1932), botanical and landscape painter, was born 22 November 1820 at Kilsaran rectory, Co. Louth, the eldest of five daughters of Thomas Span Plunket (qv) (1792–1866), protestant curate of the parish,…...
Praeger, Sophia Rosamond
Praeger, Sophia Rosamond (1867–1954), sculptor, illustrator, author, and poet, was born 15 April 1867 at Woodburn House, Holywood, Co. Down, the only daughter and the third of the six children of Willem Emilius Praeger, a linen merchant who had emigrated to Belfast from The Hague in…...
Purser, Sarah Henrietta
Purser, Sarah Henrietta (1848–1943), painter, stained-glass artist and entrepreneur, art activist and patron, was born 22 March 1848 at Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), Co. Dublin, third daughter and eighth of ten children of Benjamin (Ben) Purser, grain merchant, miller and brewer, and Anne…...
Quigly, Kathleen
Quigly, Kathleen (1888–1981), artist, was born 6 March 1888 in Dublin, daughter of Richard Quigly, civil engineer. After travelling abroad with her family in her early years, she attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts in London, and enrolled c.1906 in the Dublin…...
Ranelagh, Elaine Lambert Lewis O'Beirne-
Ranelagh, Elaine Lambert Lewis O'Beirne- (1914–96), writer and folklorist, was born 6 July 1914 in Brooklyn, New York, USA, the only child of Josephine Lambert Lewis and Harry Lewis, who worked in real estate. She studied classics at Vassar College and majored in Greek. Her interest in…...
Redmond, Mary
Redmond, Mary (1863–1930), sculptor, was born in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, daughter of a quarry worker, and moved at a young age with her family to Ardclough, near Straffan, Co. Meath, where her father was employed in the local limestone quarries, the chief source of wealth in the…...
Reid, Eileen Florence Beatrice (née Oulton)
Reid, Eileen Florence Beatrice (née Oulton) (1894–1981), painter and musician, was born at 19 Upper Mount Street, Dublin, the only daughter and one of two children of George Nugent Oulton , a Dublin barrister. Her birthplace remained her home throughout her life. Educated at the…...
Reid, Nano
Reid, Nano (1900–81), painter, was born Anne Margaret Reid on 1 March 1900 in Drogheda, Co. Louth, eldest among four children of Thomas Reid, publican, and Anne Reid (née Downey). The family lived above their pub on the corner of Peter St. and Fair St., and enjoyed a prosperous…...
Rhind, Ethel
Rhind, Ethel (1877–1952), mosaic and stained-glass artist, was born 1 December 1877 in Arrah, Bihar, India, daughter of Robert Hunter Rhind, an Edinburgh-born civil engineer in the Indian civil service, and Hannah Rhind (née Tate), a native of Whiteabbey, Co. Antrim, and a relative…...
Rice, Noreen
Rice, Noreen (1936–2015), artist, was born in east Belfast on 19 February 1936, the second of two children of Johnny Rice, a master mason, and his wife Nell (née Hayes). During the second world war her father joined the British army and her mother took work in a munitions factory,…...
Rivers, Elizabeth Joyce
Rivers, Elizabeth Joyce (1903–64), artist, was born 5 August 1903 in the family home, Bonks Hill House in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England, the daughter of Thomas Alfred Rivers, nurseryman, and his wife Mabel (née Hall). Her family had run a renowned nursery plant operation from…...
Robertson, Clementina
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Robertson, Olivia Melian
Robertson, Olivia Melian (1917–2013), writer, artist and co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis, was born on 13 April 1917 at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, London, to Manning Durdin Robertson (qv), urban planner and architect, and…...
Robinson, Anne Marjorie
Robinson, Anne Marjorie (1858–1924), miniature portrait painter, was born 15 August 1858 in Belfast. She showed a considerable talent in art from an early age and expressed herself by decorating her exercise books at school. Through the influence of…...